Yoga and The MIND
I'm sharing this because it's directly related to the teachings of LLWS. Over and over, we give things fancy names and new titles. The next thing you know, it's the latest craz..and we are all trying this, and trying that. In the end, we have to ask ourselves, "What am I doing?" Sure, there's lots of nice things to read and do, but are they getting us where we want to go?
Maybe we don't want to go anywhere? We certainly don't have to go anywhere.
How we want to live is totally up to us.
This stuff has been around for thousands of years. Call it whatever you want, but there's only one truth.
I found this beautiful message written by Sri Ramana Maharshi.
I first learned about him through Mukunda. He would reference his teachings often. All the great sages have their own way of expressing themselves. The message untimely is the same. What does that tell you?
Sri Ramana Maharshi:
Seek for the Self through meditation by tracing every thought back to it's origin, which is only the mind.
Never allow thought to run on.
If you do, it will be unending.
Take it back to the starting place - the mind - again and again, and the thought and the mind will both die of inaction. (This is the Mind merging into the heart..as you have heard me teach in class.)
The mind only exists by reason of thought.
Stop that and there is no mind.
As each doubt and depression arises, as yourself, "Who is it that doubts?" "What is it that is depressed?"
Go back constantly to the question, "Who is the 'I'? "Where is it?"
Tear everything away until there is nothing but the Source of all left.
Live always in the present; there is no past or future, except in the mind.
Me - This sums up the work of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra. It powerfully describes Ayurvedic Psychology.
If you want to work on yourself in any way in this lifetime, you must first understand why you feel the way you feel, why you think the way you think, why you act the way you act, and why you react the way you react.
The real question is...Do I want to really do this, or do I want skim the surface? Answer yourself honestly! There is no right or wrong answer. The self harm comes in, when we answer one way, and act in another way.
Sending lots of LOVE to ALL!!!
~ Leelah Lakshmi ~
